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Ramblers Association – Suffolk Area Ramblers Association – Suffolk Area Chairman’s Report ur Area AGM in February was fairly routine compared with the previous one. Two important positions were Onot filled as Phil Snelling, Area Secretary and Gordon Leverett, Area Footpaths Secretary had announced beforehand that they were not seeking re-election. Phil has kindly agreed to stay on until a successor is found. I have taken on the role of Area Footpaths Secretary with assistance from Nigel Meadows who has agreed to occupy the revived position of Area Rights of Way Adviser. Between us, we hope to keep things going until a permanent solution can be found. Since the AGM, Neil Mahler has also stood down as Countryside Officer. This is a position that previously went unfilled for several years. I would like to record our thanks to Phil, Gordon and Neil for the work they have put in. I reported last time about the financial difficulties the Ramblers’ are in. These were aired in General Council (the Ramblers' national AGM) and a motion tabled by members of Concerned Ramblers was defeated by just one vote. However, it does appear that the matters Concerned Ramblers highlighted have been recognized by the Board of Trustees and indeed, two of that group were elected onto the Board. One of them, Robert Peel, is Suffolk Area's new point of liaison, replacing Len Bannister who was not successful in his quest for re- election. We are grateful to Len particularly for coming to our Area Council meeting in March where he fielded some difficult questions from your group delegates. I would again remind you that you can keep abreast of what is going on nationally through the volunteering section of the Ramblers' website. Also the Yahoo! Forum “Ramblers Net” is well worth following. Locally, I am pleased to report that the boundaries of our Group Territories have now been confirmed. Previously there had been some uncertainty as to these. We have also been looking at the patches covered by our local footpaths secretaries to see if any adjustments need making. I hope the rest of the year brings you lots of happy rambling. 1 Jim Richards – Area Chairman 2 Explanation of Group Territories, Postcode Allocations and Footpath Secretaries Patches. I mentioned in my Chairman's piece that Area Council has now agreed what are the boundaries of our Groups' territories. Area Council thought an explanation of these, how members are allocated to groups and how they may transfer might be helpful. Suffolk Area has eight Groups. They are Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and District, Newmarket and District, Stowmarket and District, Sudbury and District, Waveney and District, Alde Valley and the Stour Walking Group. The Stour Walking Group is a group for walkers in their 20's and 30's and is not defined by a strict geographical territory. Each of the other groups has a geographical territory consisting of a number of civil parishes and these together make up a jig saw of the whole of the ceremonial County of Suffolk. Unless they specify a particular group (or choose not to belong to one at all), all new members of the Ramblers are allocated by Central Office to a group. It is every member's prerogative to join or transfer to any group (in Suffolk or elsewhere) or not to belong to one. Because our Central Office allocates members to groups by using post codes (it cannot be expected to know which civil parish or borough we live in as that is not always clear from our postal address), this does give rise to certain anomalies. Postcodes are a contrivance of Royal Mail and its predecessors and the component parts of them (areas, districts, sectors and units) do not seem to follow geographical features or local government boundaries. Some of these areas, districts, sectors and units may straddle more than one civil parish, district or even County. For example, I know that my own group, Alde Valley, is allocated members living in Holton and Wickham Market whereas those parishes belong to the Waveney & District and Ipswich & District groups respectively. So, if you live close to a territory boundary, you may find yourself assigned to the “wrong” group. Although this doesn't really matter if you are happy with the result, it is important that you know you have the option of changing if you wish. To complicate the matter further, we in Suffolk Area organize our rights of way work between nine local footpaths secretaries whose patches do not always coincide with the group territories. Our most 3 westerly patch, by arrangement with Cambridgeshire Area, covers twelve parishes in East Cambs District. In due course I will submit a description of each of our group territories for inclusion on the Suffolk Ramblers' website. JIM RICHARDS – Chairmen Suffolk Area It was also agreed at the last Area Meeting that members be reminded that they were at liberty to join or walk with a different group and details of all groups are on the Suffolk Area website. In fact Brian Milner who was a member of the Bury Group regularly walked with us at Newmarket and is now the Chairman of Newmarket Group : and very happy we are to have him. ACCESS OFFICERS REPORT espite recent gloom about availability of funds, Natural England still intend to proceed soon with the National DCoastal Trail. Work in Suffolk may start in 2011. At first a representative of Natural England will walk along a proposed route with the landowners. On April 20 th I attended a training session at Ramblers Head Office in London. Ramblers want local areas to produce their version of the Trail before Natural England start their walks along the route. Hopefully Suffolk Ramblers might map a proposed Trail in the next year or two – the Trail should be continuous and near the coast with sea views and it will continue round the estuaries up to the first bridge or all-year ferry. The meeting examined several stretches of coast as a training exercise; one stretch in Suffolk was Dunwich to Walberswick where Natural England propose that the Trail go inland following the existing path along the edge of the woods to the marshes then use the bank the River Blyth entrance as far as the pedestrian bridge. I think readers can envisage some stretches where the “trail” already exists but others where difficulties will be encountered. One interesting stretch of sea coast will be at Orfordness; how will Natural England reconcile their duty to make the coastal path with the opinions of the National 4 Trust and the dead-end nature of a route past the Lighthouse to the tip of the Ness? I also attended another Suffolk Coastal Community Conference at Snape (March 26 th ) and a meeting of the Alde and Ore Partnership. Although the people attending these meetings exemplify the variety of leisure activities in our County most delegates seemed to think that views had been amply expressed and the time has come for action! With regard to access land I recently visited Chippenhall Green near Cratfield where I was accosted by a local resident who insisted that the Green was neither a registered common nor access land (both incorrect). The Green is shown on maps as access land and is so by virtue of being registered; registered commons in Suffolk are listed on the SCC website where Chippenhall Green is No.29 out of over one hundred. Richard Tyson ---------------oo--------------- RA General Council 2010 Notes and thoughts by Ralph Brighton one of two Suffolk Area Delegates NB. I have tended not to repeat items covered by Anne’s excellent report. Saturday Discussion Groups 6 groups in one room - idea soon abandoned with 2 groups going elsewhere. Unable to hear anyone any further than 6 feet away- not well organised! CRM The Senior Systems Archivist /Developer presided over discussion; I was not impressed; he was ineffectual as a speaker and could not even get his computer presentation illustrating the database to work! Came away after ¾ hr with no more confidence in system. The old database had been maintained (and understood) by one person only. 5 Was out of date and many months spent trying to extract meaningful info from it. Software not at fault –fault was old database,’90% of system OK’ Cannot give Membership Secretaries information regarding those who pay by D/D for example blaming Data protection!! Ditto re e-mail address releases. Typical reports run to 111 pages for Surrey (=8000 members)-even without addresses. Asked “Would you use CRM if starting today?” –a guarded yes –no other system can cope with Gift Aid ! CRM functional but not delivering information needed by Membership Secretaries. Main Conference Tom Franklin Chief Executive (did not say much throughout whole GC) An update was given on the progress of the current year's business plan. Most importantly he reminded us of recent membership figures:- Oct 09 123123 Jan 10 119165 !! Apr 10 124063 He admitted that we were behind with new membership turn around but it is now getting better. Wants to develop direct debit membership (with discounts?) “every day CRM still biggest issue but things are getting better, clearer” “data is accurate, I have confidence in it (not 100%)” Julia Bradbury, the well known TV outdoors presenter and walking enthusiast was elected President. Website quotes:- Tom Franklin "We are thrilled to be marking our 75th anniversary with such a well loved, vivacious President as figurehead." 6 Julia “My ambition with the Ramblers over the coming year is simple: get Britain on its feet. The country is stuffed with beautiful walks and a 130,000 mile footpath network I want everyone to get out there and enjoy it!” Unfortunately Julia was unable to attend –sent apologies (filming in France!) Motions The most eagerly awaited motion, submitted by “Concerned Ramblers” re dismay over last year’s debacle, was, after considerable and occasionally heated, discussion, lost by 1 vote (59 for and 60 against).
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